Dehumidifier: Your Best Defense When The Air Turns Humid

By
Blanton's Air, Plumbing & Electric
|April 26, 2017

The humidity in Fayetteville can make home an uncomfortable place to be.
Humidity can not only make you feel sticky, sluggish and weak, but can
also cause structural damage to your home and harm your family’s health.

The simplest tool you can use to combat humidity is a dehumidifier. Just
using fans or opening the windows won’t bring the humidity level
down to where it should be. Fans will just move the humidity around and
opening the windows doesn’t work if it’s humid outside.

A whole-house dehumidifier integrated into your HVAC system is the best
type of dehumidifier, as it allows you to choose your humidity level and
maintain that level consistently throughout your whole home.

As long as you set the humidity level to between
30 and 50 percent, a dehumidifier will help your home avoid problems often associated with
high levels of humidity, such as rotted wood, wet spots on walls, condensation
on windows and peeling wallpaper. And in the summer, you won’t be
tempted to keep your home overly cool just to deal with the humidity.
More importantly, your family will avoid any allergic reactions stemming
from mold growth and dust mites caused by high humidity.

Since they remove the moisture from the air, rather than just move it around,
dehumidifiers are your most basic solution to high humidity problems and
will help your family and your home avoid a host of potential problems.